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Eliza Suggs. 



SHADOW AND 
SUNSHINE 



BY 



ELIZA SUGGS 



M 



Tliou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve 
mo from trouble; thou shalt compass me about 
with songs of deliverance.— Se/a/2, Ps. 23:7. 



OMAHA, NEB. 
1906. 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

DEC t4 1306 

/I copyright Entry , 
CLASS /( XXc, No. 
COFY B. 






Copyright 1906, 
BY Eliza Suggs. 



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1Intro^uction♦ 

While attending a camp meeting near 
Alma, Nebraska, during the summer of 
1895, mj attention was drawn to a little 
colored girl sitting in a baby cab, who ap- 
peared to take a deep interest in the ser- 
vices. I was told that it was Sister Eliza 
Suggs, who, amid deep affliction, was de- 
veloping into a strong Christian charac- 
ter. 

While the reader will be touched by the 
scenes of suffering related in this narra- 
tive, he will be impressed that Eliza does 
not belong to the despondent class. She 
is evidently of a cheerful temperament, 
possessing an overcoming faith which 
gives her the assurance that the God 
whom she loves and serves, intends to 



provide for and sustain her until life's 
journey is ended. She saw light where 
others would have seen only darkness; 
she cherished hope where others would 
have felt only despair; and fearing it 
might displease her Master, she reject- 
ed offers of worldly gain which others 
would have eagerly grasped. Of humble 
parentage, limited advantages, physical 
embarassments, she is shedding rays of 
light along her pathway, and making im- 
pressions for good on the hearts and lives 
of those with whom she associates. What 
a marvel of grace ! 

It is not strange that one into whose 
life a kind Providence has brought so 
much of comfort, amid suffering ; so much 
the world her life story. I believe much 
amid privation, should desire to give to 
of joy, amid sorrow ; so much of blessing 



good will be accomplished by the circu- 
lation of this simple narrative, written, 
as I believe it to have been, purely for the 
olory of God. It will serve to forcibly 
illustrate how one in sore affliction and 
deep privation may possess the grace of 
perfect resignation to the will of God, 
and be ready for any service he may re- 
quire. 

Burton R. Jones. 




pergonal IRcmtnteccnccs 
an& Zleetlmonv- 

C. M. DAMON. 

With much pleasure I learn that Sister 
Eliza Suggs, colored, of Orleans, Neb., 
is to bring out a book or biography and 
reminiscences of her parents. I know 
nothing in detail of her plans, but I shall 
be surprised if the book is not one of 
thrillino: interest. The author is a most 
remarkable young woman. Born of such 
heritage of physical infirmity as is sel- 
dom knoAvu, she has surmounted incred- 
ible di ill cult ies and made progress in edu- 
cation, light labor, and the development 
of Christian character, that is the as- 
tonishment and admiration of her multi- 
tude of friends. She is a mite of body — 
apparently less than the upper third of 
a normal growth. 



8 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

Carried in arms or wheeled about in a 
carriage, her frail hands and weH devel- 
oped head have accomplished wonders, 
obtaining a fair education, which makes 
her a valuable assistant, sometimes as 
secretary of religious organizations and 
work. In former years she assisted her 
father, more or less, in evangelistic work, 
and she has presided in public meetings 
with marked dignity and ability. Carried 
on the plaform and moved about as oc- 
casion required by kind and willing at- 
tendants, I have perhaps never seen more 
clock-like precision than the execution 
of an interesting program, at which she 
presided in a public temperance meeting 
in the M. E. Church, during my last pas- 
torate in Orleans. 

She is one of several sons and daugh- 
ters of most estimable Christian parents, 



SHADOW AND SUNSHIXK. S* 

who were born in slavery, whose tlirill- 
ing story w^ill be told in the book of which 
tliis may form a brief chapter. Her fa- 
ther was one of the ablest and comeliest 
prcnieliers of his race whom I have known. 
He considered himself of unmixed blood. 
His manly form, fine countenance, and 
stronir and melodious voice, made him at- 
tractive, both in speech and song. 

When the author of this book was very 
vouno-, I was witness of a most exciting 
episode in his remarkable history. V>'e 
were on a camp ground in w^estern Kan- 
sas. On Sabbath morning the service had 
closed and many had retired from the 
Tabernacle. Bro. Suggs had not yet left 
the platform where he had been speaking. 
He ^^'as tappped on the shoulder and re- 
quested to step outside wiien three men 
quickly handcuffed him and rushed him 
from the grounds. I was instantly noti- 
fied that he had called for me and Ixev. 
E. E. Miller. I reached him about forty 



I 



10 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

rods away as they were ready to drive 
off the ground. He held up his manac- 
led hands and with unaffected indig- 
nation, exclaimed : James Suggs, a mur- 
derer!'' I inquired the meaning, and was 
informed he was a suspect from Ohio for 
whom a large reward was offered. The 
fearful blunder of a bungling detective 
and his assistants was apparent; but 
that did not help in the excitement of the 
moment. I assured them of the error, 
asked what word I should send his wife ; 
was requested to look after his horse tied 
on the ground, and they were gone. While 
others sought his release by legal means, 
unavailing, as he was so swiftly driven 
from one county to another, I telegraphed 
a friend in Topeka to see the Governor, 
and have the Ohio requisition refused, if 
it should be presented, as seemed prob- 
able. I then wrote Ex-governor St. John, 
who had employed him and the refugees 
which had poured into Kansas during the 



SHADOW AND SUNSIIlMv 11 

noted exodus from tlie South, aud in form- 
ed his old neighbors of Princeton, ill. All 
this proved unnecessary, for in a day or 
two he was taken before a Justice in Os- 
I borne county, and speedily demonstrated 
their mistake. The false arrest cost the 
detective severely, and it would have gone 
harder with him but for an error in the 
accusation under which he was confined 
for some time and brought to trial. An 
account of this singular affair may be 
detailed elsewhere. My efforts, occasion- 
ed by the excitement of the hour, served 
to bring out varied testimonials to his 
worth and high esteem in which he was 
held. 

Bro. Suggs has long since joined the 
throng of the ransomed ones, while his 
companion remains an honored and be- 
loved pilgrim among the saints of Or- 
leans. 

One other thought comes to mind in 
this connection — his realization and en- 



12 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

joyment of what he sang so beautifully, 
the first time I ever heard it, "The Toils 
of the Road will seem Nothing when I 
get to the End of the Way." 

The devotion to the author of her sis- 
ter, Katie, for years a member of the 
Official Board at Orleans, is something 
interesting and touching. Hard working 
as she is at home and away, she seems 
never to tire of the care of her afflicted 
but honored charge. When Eliza, hidden 

in church behind the seats in front, would 
testify, Kate rises with her in arms, and 
she speaks clearly and forcibly. There 
is not a family among our people in the 
place more respected or more deservedly 
so. Boarding with them for eight months, 
with every care and kindness shown, the 
writer witnesses that he never saw an 
improper act or heard an improper word. 
Having heard from the lips of Sister 
Suggs many an incident of slave days 
and war times, I shall await with inter- 
est the appearance of the forthcoming 
book. 



I 



S'l 



Shetcb of fatbcr. 

"Some suck up poison from a sorrow's core, 
As naught but nightshade grew upon earth's 
ground; 
Love turned all his to heart'sease, and the more 
Fate tried his bastions, she but forced a door, 
Leading to sweeter manhood and more sound." 

— James Russell Lowell. 

My father and mother were slaves, 
leather T\'as born in North Carolina, Aug- 
ust 15th, 1831. He was a twin, and was 
sold away from his parents and twin 
brother, Harry, at the age of three years. 
This separation, at so tender an age, was 
for all time, as never again did he see 
his loved ones. In after years he had a 
faint recollection of his mother, and 
could remember distinctly the words of 
introduction with which he was handed 
over from his old master to his new: 
"Whip that boy and make him mind." 



14 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

A slave had no real name of his own, 
but was called by the name of his master ; 
and whenever he was sold and changed 
masters, his name was changed to that 
of the new master. The parents gave his 
first, or Christian name, however, which 
was usually retained amid all his chang- 
ing of masters. Father's parents named 
him James. So at this time his name was 
James Martin. He was sold by Mr. Mar- 
tin for a hundred dollars, and taken to 
Mississippi. Afterward he was sold to 
Jack Kindrick, and again to Mr. Suggs, 
with whom he remained until the vrar 
broke out. 

Father was a blacksmith by trade, and 
was considered a valuable slave. Mr. 
Suggs was a kind master, and as James 
was an industrious and obedient servant, 
he was allowed the privilege, after his 
day's work was done, of working after 
night for himself. He made pancake 
griddles, shovels, tongs, and other small 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 15 



) 



articles, the proceeds from the sale of 
which brought in many a small coin. He 
was also allowed, in odd moments, to cul- 
tivate a small garden patch, on his own 
responsibility, and it Avas surprising 
what that little patch was made to yield. 
Naturally proud and ambitious, the 
mone}^ thus obtained was usually spent 
upon his person, enabling him to dress 
better and appear to much better advan- 
tage than his less enterprising compeers. 
Slaves were not allowed to have an ed- 
ucation. Father said he had to ^'pick 
up'' what education he got, much as a 
rab1)it might be supposed to pick up some 
tender morsel with the grevhounds hot in 
pursuit. When the master's children came 
from school, thev would make letters and 
say, "Jim, you can't make that." But 
he would make it and find out what it 
was. Again he would say to them, "You 
can't spell "horse, "or "dog," or some 
other w^ord he wanted to know. And they 



16 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

would reply, "Yes, I can," and would 
spell it. All this time he was learning, 
while they had no idea that he was storing 
these things up in his mind. Yes, he had 
to steal what learning he got. 

While James was still quite young, 
Mr. Suggs bought a little slaA^e girl, nam- 
ed Malinda Filbrick. In time, Jame and 
Malinda came to love each other, and 
were married while yet ^n their teens. 
The same pride of heart which had mani- 
fested itself in his own stylish appear- 
ance, now prompted him to lavish his ex- 
tra earnings on his young bride. One in- 
stance of his extravagant indulgence was 
the purchase of a |7.00 pair of ear-drops, 
which doubtless afforded him much grati- 
fication until the ill-fated day when they 
proved too strong a temptation to a party 
of Union soldiers, who carried them off 
as spoils. Another outlay of his surplus 
earnings was in the purchase, for his 
wife, of a remarkable quilt, made after 




Mrs. Malinda Suggs. 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 17 

the pattern known as "the chariot- wheel." 

This was truly a masterpiece of skill, and 

was highly prized by my mother. It 

seemed about to share the same fate as 

the ear-drops and vvas in the hands of a 

Union soldier, when the earnest plead- 
ings of my mother prevailed upon the 

kind-hearted officer in charge to give or- 
ders for its restoration. 

While still in slavery, father was won- 
derfully converted. Before his conversion 
he was a wicked young man. Pride in 
dress was not his only besetment. He 
loved to danc and drink, and have as 
good a time, from a worldly standpoint, 
as any human being could who was held 
in bondage. Whenever a slave wanted 
to go out to spend the evening he had to 
get a pass from his master; for there 
were more men called patrolment, elected 
according to law, whose duty it was to 
seize and thoroughly chastise any slave 
who was so presumptious as to venture 



18 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

out without a pass. If a slave was caught 
out after nine o'clock at night, without ai 
pass, he was stripped to the waist and 
beaten thirty lashes on his naked back. 
It was against the law to whip a slave 
over his clothing. One night these pa- 
trolment caught father out without a 
pass. He well knew what was to follow, 
and as they held him by the coat collar, 
he straightened back his arms and ran 
out of the coat leaving it in their hands. 
They got the coat, but James never got 
the whipping. 



After he was converted, he would go 
to his master and ask to be allowed to go 
to meeting, and permission having beenij 
given, he would say, "'And please, sir, 
may I have a pass?" At these meetings 
he would talk and exhort his fellow- 
slaves, until Mr. Suggs would say, "If 
James keeps on like this, he will surely 
make a preacher." 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 19 

Father loved freedom; or at least he 
thought he should enjoy it. He never had 

been a free man, and hardlv knew how 
it would seem to be free. But it is natur- 
al to every man, of whatever race or col- 
or, to want to be free. He used often to 
say to his young wife, ^^When the car of 
freedom comes along, I am going to get 
on board;" meaning that if he got a 
chance he was going to the war. 

One day the news came that the "Yan- 
kees" were within four miles of Kipley, 
the village near which Mr. Suggs lived. 
They were reported as having aheavy force 
of both calvary and infantry. Mr. Suggs 
was a very wealthy man and had a large 
number of fine horses and carriages, as 
well as great herds of cattle and sheep. 
All these he must hide, as best he could, 
from the "Yankees," for they were very 
destructive to the property of the south- 
erners. So he called his men to gather 
up his belongings, as far as possible, and 



20 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

take them to the cane-brake to hide them. 
The canes grow so thickly together, and 
the leaves so interwoven, as to make it 
impossible to see any object at a distance 
of even a few feet. So a cane-brake was 
a fine place for hiding. 

Mr. Suggs called James and told him 
to take his sheep and go at once to the 
cane-brake, which he did. Little did my 
mother think, as she saw him go, that this 
would be the last she would see of James 
for three years and nine months, lint 
so it was to be. When the "Yankees" 
came, a colored man took them and show- 
ed them where these treasures were hid- 
den, together with the belongings of sev- 
eral neighbors. The soldiers helped them- 
selves to whatever they wanted ; and told 
the slaves that any who wanted to do so 
might go with them. Father thought his 
time had come to strike for liberty. He 
went into the war and fought for his 
freedom and that of h;« family, and ob- 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 21 

tained it as a weH-earned victory. 

Many of the slaves, in making their 
escape north with the Union army, took 
with them their wives and children. So 
father fondly hoped he could get some 
soldiers to come back with him to get 
mother and the four children. He knew 
but little of army life and discipline, and 
so was bitterly disappointed in never get- 
ting back. 

When the excitement was over and the 
soldiers gone, and some of the slaves came 
back to the plantation, father did not ap- 
pear. Mr. Suggs came to mother and 
said,'' Malinda, w^here is James?'' "I don't 
know," said mother. "Didn't you send 
him ofe with the sheep?" But he would 
not believe her when she said she didn't 
know. He blamed her for father's going 
away, and thought she had put him up 
to go. 

Father enlisted in 1864, but was wound- 
ed shortlv after and discharged from ac- 



22 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. f. 



tive service and sent to the hospital. Af- 
ter recovering from his wound, he joined 
the regular service and continued until 
the close of the war, part of the ^me 
acting as corporal of his company. When 
the war was over, he came north with his 
captain, Mr. Newton. The thought up- 
permost in his mind, was how to get his 
family from the south. For him to have 
gone after them, in person, at that time, 
would have been at the risk of his life. 
Mr. Newton, having business in the 
south, and being a kind-hearted man, fa- 
ther begged of him to go and find his fam- 
ily and bring them to him. This Captain 
Newton did, finding them not far from 
where father had left them. 

Father now went to work with great 
zeal at his trade to earn money for the 
purpose of getting a home for his family. 
He was at last a free man, with his dear 
family — a free family, and living in his 
own free country. The slaves could not 



H 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 23 

36 married as white people were; for tliere 
was a clause in the marria<i;e ceremony 
which gave the slave-holder the right to 
separate husband and wife whenever he 
chose to do so. I have heard my motlier 
say that she has known instances where 
husband and wife have been separated 
after having been married only a few 
weeks, or even only a few days. My fa- 
ther said that seeing he was now a free 
man, he wanted to be married like other 
free peoj^le. So on the fifth day of June, 
in 1866, father and mother were married 
again according to the Christian rites, or 
according to the white man's law. 

Father continued to work at his trade 
until God called him to preach the Gospel. 
He had a great struggle over his call to 
preach. He had worldly ambitions and 
was making money, and it was hard for 
him to give up all and follow Christ. Fin- 
ally he consented to preach, but did not 
sro at it with his whole heart. He would 



24 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. ^> 

preach occasionally, but still worked at t 
his blacksmithing, until one night the 
Lord spoke to him plainly. He said it wa« • 
like an audible voice saying, "Either [ 
preach the Gospel or work at your trade." ' 
He was to make his choice, but it meant 
to him heaven or hell. Which would he 
take? He trembled as he felt the respon- • 
sibility of leading lost souls to Christ. But t 
he made his choice and said, "Yes,-' to » 
God. He began preaching around in i 
school houses. Large crowds gathered to ) 
hear him, and from that time on, it was i 
the business of his life to minister Divine 
truth to dying men and women. 

In 1874 he was given exhorter's license, 
by Kev. 0. E. Harroun, Jr., in the Illi- 
nois Conference of the Free Methodist 
church. In 1878 he was given a local 
preacher's license by Rev. Edwin C. Best, 
pastor of the Sheffield circuit, Galva dis- 
trict, of the Illinois Conference. In 1879 
he was ordained deacon in the Illinois 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 25 

Couferenco, by General Superintendent 
B. T. Roberts, and in 1884, in tlie West 
Kansas Conference, he was ordained el- 
der by General Superintendent E. P. 
Hart. 

His labors during the early years of his 
ministry were in the Illinois Conference. 
Rev. C. W. Sherman came to Princeton, 
where v/e lived, with a band of workers 
and held a tent meeting. This band con- 
sisted of C. L. Lamberts and wife, F. D. 
Brooke, and Lizzie Bardell, now his wife; 
D. M. Smashey, and Belle Christie, now 
his wife. These band workers have since 
developed into prominent preachers and 
evangelists in the Free Methodist church, 
some of them having filled the ofiice of dis- 
trict elder for several years. They were 
at this time entertained in our home. 
While the meeting was in progress one 
night the rowdies gathered, cut down the 
large tabernacle and threw stones into 
the small tents. Brother Sherman tried 



26 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

to persuade them to desist when one 
struck him in the eye, nearly putting out 
his eye. Brother Smashey received a cut 
in his head, from which pools of blood 
stood around the tent. 

Next morning my father looked down 
toward the camp ground and saw that the 
tent was down, and he and mother went 
down with sorrowful hearts to comfort 
the workers. Brother Sherman met them 
with a joyful, "Praise the Lord, Sister 
Suggs, I shall preach tonight if I haven^t 
either eye." And he did, with a bandage 
around his eye. And with another baud- 
age around Brother Smashey's head, they 
looked like soldiers after a battle. The 
Lord gave a grand victory, for the hearts 
of the people were turned toward them in 
sympathy. A good collection was taken 
to defray the expenses of the meeting, the 
tent was raised, and the meeting went on 
with power. Souls were saved and added 
to the small society already organized in 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. l!7 

that place. The city authorities promised 
protection from future disturbance, and 
kept their promise. 

In the year 1879 father went to Kansas 
as an evangelist. This was the year of 
the great drouth and grasshopper scourge. 
I There was a colony of colored people, who 
had come from the south and settled in 
Graham county, Kansas, naming their lit- 
tle settlement Nicodemus. Father went 
to preach to these people. He found them 
in a suffering condition, nearly starving, 

I and with scarcely enough clothing to cov- 
er their nakedness. Father visited Hon. 
John P. St. John, at that time Governor 
of Kansas, to see what could be done for 
these people. The governor sent him back 
to Illinois to solicit aid for them; for, 
said he, "After you have provided for 

' their temporal needs, then they can hear 
your Gospel.'' He solicited accordingly 

II in Illinois, and sent back barrel after bar- 
rel of clothing to the people. 



28 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

He afterward took up a homestead in 
PhiUips county, Kansas, and in the year 
1885 brought his family to Kansas. He 
was now almost constantly in the work of 
the Lord. He often said, "I would sooner 
wear out than rust out," and surely God 
granted him the desire of his heart. 

But while he was thus working earnest- 
ly to build up God's kingdom, Satan was 
just as busily at work to hinder and de- 
stroy his labors. Jesus said to Simon 
Peter, "Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath 
desired to have you, that he may sift you 
as wheat; but I have prayed for thee." 
Ah! here was Peter's only strength, "I 
have prayed for thee." In the power of 
those prayers, and in that alone, could he 
overcome. The same old enemy is in the 
world today and his hatred and spite to- 
ward God's children is just as strong as 
it was in Peter's day. He still desires to 
have God's little ones that he may sift 
them as wheat. 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 29 

The powers of darkness were now turn- 
ed loose upon father. Wicked men laid 
hands upon him and took him to prison. 
This occurred on the camp ground at Mar- 
vin, Kansas. One afternoon, after he was 
through preaching, some one came up to 
him and said, ^'Brother Suggs, some one 
wants to see you.'' He was led out sup- 
posing he was going to have a talk with 
some old friend or with some one who was 
inquiring the way to God, as many such 

; came to him for counsel. He found him- 
self being liandcuffed and being hurried 
away between two disguised detectives, 
who accused him of being one Harrison 
Page, an escaped murderer. In vain he 
pleaded innocence. ^'You are Harrison 
Page," said his accusers. "Your name is 
not James Suggs. You are a murderer." 

i: Imagine his surprise ! But the T.nrd bless- 
ed him right there, and as he was led 
away, he was heard praising the Lord. 
The last word he said to the brethren was, 



30 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

"Take good care of old Dollie, and see 
that she has plenty of water, take her 
home, and tell wife I will come out all 
right." One looking on observed, "Any 
man in such a condition as that, arrested 
and accused of murder, taking thought of 
an old horse like Dolly, surely can't be 
a very bad man, Suggs is innocent." Rev. 
C. M. Damon was tireless in his efforts 
for father's release, and with character- 
istic foresight, telegraphed a friend in 
Topeka to see the Governor, and wrote to 
ex-Governor John P. St. John and to fath- 
er's old neighbors in Princeton, Illinois. 
Kev. E. E. Miller, now in heaven, pursued 
after the captors, the brethren made up 
money to pay his expenses and kept him 
right after them, until father was proven 
'r.nucent and set free. 

Doubtless it was the intention and ex- 
pectation of the enemy, in making this 
bold accusation, to silence father forever 
from preaching. But in this he overshot 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. M 

the mark. Father Dcver or^ascd preaching 
on this account; but on the other hand, it 
gave him new opportunities for preaching 
the Gospel. Even in jail he held meetiuga. 
and one man who heard him was con- 
verted and called to preach. Father lived 
convictions on liis accusers. lie talked 
to them about their souls and their hard 
hearts melted. They knew he was inno- 
cent, and really wanted to get rid of him 
before they could do so. His accusers 
were afterward arrested and brouprht to 
trial. After father was cleared and re- 
leased, and while waiting for his accusers* 
trial, he started a meeting in Osborne, 
Kansas. Thus God caused the wrath of 
man to praise him, and opened new and 
unexpected doors for the spread of the 

N Gospel.^ 

This arrest and seizure of father, and 

; the suspense which followed, were a 
strange and hard ordeal for the family at 
home. My mother has been through the 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

fire, but the same God who was with her 
in slaver}^ days was with her at this time. 
Father was mercifully restored to his fam- 
ily, all safe and sound, and went on his 
way rejoicing. Doors of usefulness were 
opened to him on every side. He waa 
quite widely known within the bounds of 
several different conferences, the Illinois, 
Iowa, West Iowa, Kansas, West Kansas, 
and Nebraska conferences, each having 
claimed some share of his time and labor. 
Attracted by the Free Methodist Sem- 
inary at Orleans, Nebraska, and desiring 
for his daughters the advantages it afford- 
ed, he moved his family thither in 1886. 
But he did not settle down or superan- 
nuate because he had moved to a commun- 
ity that was well supplied with preachers 
and Christian workers. It was only for 
convenience and the welfare of his family 
that he was led to take this step, and not 
with any intention of dropping out of the 
Lord's work. From this as a center, he 




Rev James Suggs 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 33 

went out to different places for evangel- 
istic labors, and kept the revival fire burn- 
ing brightly in his own heart through the 
heat of summer as w^ell as through the 
cold of winter. 

The last winter he was on earth, being 
the winter of 1888-89, he was engaged in 
a protracted campaign against sin, on the 
Sappa Creek, in Norton County, Kansas. 
He pitched his tabernacle on the farm of 
'Tather Neimyer," and here once more set 
the battle in array. He banked up the 
tabernacle on the outside, and put in it 
two stoves, which made it very comfort- 
able. The attendance and interest were 
good, and souls were born into the king- 
dom of God. After closing this series of 
meetings in the tabernacle, he held others 
in the neighboring schoolhouses, and thus 
put in the winter solidly for God. It w^as 
the privilege of my mother and myself to 
be with him in all these meetings. How 



34 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 



1 



little we realized that these were his last 
on earth ! 

He returned home from his winter's 
campaign, weary and exhausted. He de- 
cided to rest a little and be ready to go 
again. After resting a few weeks he went 
on an evangelistic tour east, but soon re- 
turned home again sick, and took his bed. 
His disease baffled all the skill of the 
physicians, and after an illness of 
about five weeks during which he mani- 
fested great patience and resignation, on 
the 22nd of May, 1889, he passed peace- 
fully home to God. His funeral at Orleanf? 
was largely attended, not only by his 
brethren and sisters in the church, but 
by the citizens of Orleans who thus show- 
ed their appreciation and respect. 

But none knew his worth so well as 
his OAvn family. He was the strong stafl 
upon which mother and all of us had 
leaned. How should we ever learn to wall^ 
alone? "Leaning on the Everlasting 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 35 

Arms/' we have since learned to mount 
up on wings as eagles over all our diffi- 
culties, to run the Christian race and not 
grow weary, and to walk with the Lord 
and not faint. Father, we miss thee — as 
much now as ever we did — yet would not 
' recall thee. Rest, weary soldier, rest 
' from thy labors ! Thy works shall follow 
I thee. Thy reward shall be sure. A part, 
at least of your family is travelling the 
I road our father trod. We have caught 
I the spirit of your loved battle song, and 
; sing with you, 

"We'll end this warfare, 

Down by the river ; 
We'll end this warfare 

Down by the riverside." 

By and by God shall say to each one 
of us, as he said to you, ''It is enough; 
come up higher." 

"And when the battle's over 
We shall wear a crown 

In the New Jerusalem." 



36 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

And then, when the last battle has been 
fought, and the last victory has been won, 
and the last enemy has been destroyed, 
then and not till then, shall we lay our 
armor down, and through all eternity, 

"We will walk through the streets of the 

city 
With our loved ones gone before ; 
We will stand on the banks of the river, 
We will meet them there to part no i 

more." 



' 



Shetcb of flDotber. 

"When we are sick, where can we turn for succor? 
When we are wretched, where can we complain? 
And when the world looks cold and surly on us, 
Where can we go to meet a warmer eye 
With such sure confidence as to a mother?" 

— Selected. 

My mother was born in Alabama, April 
5th, 1834, and when quite young went 
with her parents to Mississippi. Her mo- 
ther was a slave belonging to a Mr McAr- 
thur. He had several sons and when he 
died his slaves were divided among his 
sons. In the division, parents and chil- 
dren were separated from each other, and 
thus mother was separated from her mo- 
ther and eight brothers, but not far. She 
could go and see them occasionally. My 
mother was never ill-treated like some of 
the slaves were, but my poor grandmother 
was. 



38 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

One night while the old man, McAr- 
thnr, was still living, he and one of his 
sons went to town. They were both in 
the habit of drinking. So on this particu- 
lar night they got drunk and ganiBled 
away their money and came home in a 
rage. Grandmother had to sit up late to 
keep their supper warm. She was afraid 
to go to bed, but finally dropped to sleep 
and the fire died down. Sometime in the 
small hours of the night, they came home. 
With a start she awoke, and tried to fix 
the fire. But as she stooped to stir the 
fire in the fire-place, the old man kicked 
her in the eye and put it out. But this 
was not punishment enough. Early the 
next morning he called her out to be 
whipped. What was all this for? What 
was all this for? What had she done? 
He accused her of stealing his money ! So 
she was stripped to the waist and beaten 
on her naked back until it was raw like 
beef, and as he threw the whips with 



1 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 39 

whicli ]w had beaten her on the ground, 
the dogs licked the blood from them. But 
grandmother must continue to go to the 
lield and work, notwithstanding her raw 
back and consequent liigh fever. 

My mother was a little girl then, and 
while grandmother was being beaten and 
was crying so, the little girl would scream 
and pretend to be sick, thinking the mas- 
ter would sureh' let her mother go to 
come to her sick child. But no ! He paid 
no attention to her screams. After the 
old man McArthur died, my mother was 
taken by one of the sons. But he being a 
hard drinker, got into debt and my mo- 
ther had to be sold. 

I A Mr. Fillbrick now bought her. Mrs. 

'Fillbrick was a good Christian woman, 
and took a great deal of interest in her 
little slave girl. She taught her to read 
and was always kind to her. She would 
sometimes talk out her heart to mother, 
young as she was, perhaps for want of 



40 SHADOW A-^D SUNSHINE. 

any one else to talk to. At such times' 
she would tell her that it was very wrong 
to keep slaves ; but as she was not strong i 
enough to do her own work, and had to i 
have help, of course it was necessary for 
her to buy one. Mother was the only ser- 
in her house and necessarily had much 
work to do. 

Mrs. Fillbrick, although so kind and I 
gentle in disposition, was not very well 
liked among her neighbors and mother 
often wondered why. But after she waa 
older she knew the reason. It was be- 
cause Mrs. Fillbrick opposed slavery. 
Speaking almost prophetically, she would 
sometimes tell mother that some day the 
slaves would all be free. Soon this woman 
left the south, and of course, had to sell 
her slave. 

Mr. Suggs, my father's master, now 
bought her, and thus my father and mo- 
ther were brought together for the first 
time. After they were married they were 



N 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 41 

never torn from each other and sold to 
different masters; for Mr. Suggs said he 
did not beHeve in separating husband and 
wife. Thus God dealt very tenderly with 
my parents and spared them the horrors 
and heartaches which Avere the common 
lot of most slaves. 

Under this comparatively kind and in- 
dulgent master, my mother knew little 
of real trouble. Her first experiences 
that might be called real troubles came 
after mv father had gone to the war. Mr. 
Suggs, fearing that my father wmild come 
back and get mother and her four chil- 
dren, took the two older children, Ellen 
and Franklin, to Georgia. I will say 
here, that when the Union soldiers were 
around the slaves could just walk off be- 
fore their master's eyes, and he dare not 
say a word. So by separating the fam- 
ily, Mr. Suggs seemed more likely to pre- 
vent their escape with the Union soldiers. 
When Ellen and Frank were sent away, 



42 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

Lucinda, the next little girl, would have 
been taken too, but she was sick at the 
time. So she and baby Calvin were left 
with their mother. And now followed 
dark days for mother. Husband gone, 
she knew not where, and herself blamed 
for his escape; and now her two children 
in strange hands and carried away to a 
strange land! She had also a sister be- 
longing to the same master. To add to 
her troubles, her sister died at this time. 
It seemed her cup of bitterness was more 
than full. 

Baby Calvin was very cross. Mother 
had no time to care for him properly, as 
she was the only woman servant on the 
place and had ten cows to milk and all 
the cooking to do. So her little children 
were neglected, for this work must be 
done. One day Calvin was sitting on the 
kitchen floor crying loudly, and mother 
had no time to take him. The mistress 
came in, and hearing the baby crying, she 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 43 

chugged his head up against the brick 
wall. How he did scream ! Mother said, 
"You had better kill him and be done with 
it.'' The mistress angrily replied, *'Let 
the nasty stinking little rascal behave 
himself, then ; he is a chip off from the old 
block,'' meaning he was too much like his 
father. 

Mother was professing religion before 
father went away, but was ignorant of 
the way of real salvation ; and instead of 
her troubles driving her nearer the Lord, 
she wandered further and further away, 
and at last ceased praying altogether. Her 
troubles preyed upon her mind so that she 
lost her appetite and could not sleep. She 
grew weaker and weaker until she could 
no longer get through with her work. 
Finally she came to herself. She thought, 
'^I must not die, but must live for the 
sake of my two little ones. She began 
calling on the Lord for help, wept her way 
back to the cross, and was restored to the 



44 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

Divine favor. There came to her new 
strength and courage to meet life's bat- 
tles. She inquired of the Lord as to 
whether she should ever again see her hus- 
band and children. Clearly and definite- 
ly came the answer, "You shall see them 
again." She began trusting in the Lord, 
and was touched and helped in her body. 
As to any direct word from her hus- 
band, she had none. He wrote her letters 
but they were destroyed. Many a false 
report concerning him was conjured up 
and poured into her ears by her unfeeling 
mistress, who would come into the kitch- 
en, light her pipe and sit leisurely down 
to rehearse to my mother what she had 
heard about "James," every w^ord of it 
the product of her own fertile imagina- 
tion, and told purely for the purpose of 
making mother miserable. So when the 
mistress appeared at the door of the hut, 
and lighting her pipe, sat down for one 
of her cheerful (?) interviews, mother 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 45 

usually knew that some big story was to 
foHow. She would preface her remarks 
by sayiug, ^'Well, I heard from James to- 
day. The ^Yankees' have got him." And 
theu would follow some horrible recital 
of how the ^'Yaukees'^ had him chained to 
an anvil block and were starving him to 
death, or something else efjually consol- 
ing. At such times mother would calmly 
answer, ^'Oh, well, he is as w^ell off there 
as he would be here.'' 

The slave-holders who had sent their 
slaves to Georgia to prevent the "Yan- 
kees" getting them now began to think 
that the war was about over, as everv- 
thing seemed to calm down; and Mr. 
Suggs said with the others, "Well, we can 
bring our niggers back now, the d — d 
Yankees have left Corinth." The general 
feeling was that of safety, and there was 
little fear that the Union armv would 
again bother them. So the exiled slaves 
were sent for, and with them came moth- 



45 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

er's children, Ellen and Frank. They had 
been abused and sadly neglected, but in 
answer to prayer, they were restored to 
their mother. 

But the calm in which they had trusted 
was the calm of death. It was the lull 
before the bursting of the thunderbolt. 
The "Yankees" returned in greater num- 
bers than ever, and in less than two 
months peace was proclaimed. Mother 
could see so clearly the hand of God in 
the restoration of her children in His 
own appointed time and manner; as had 
they been left in Georgia until the close 
of the war, it is very doubtful, humanly 
speaking, as to whether she would ever 
have seen them again. And for this rea- 
son : So long as the slaves were consid- 
ered property, each owner naturally look- 
ed after his own belongings and kept 
them together. After the slaves were 
freed, however, no one cared what became 
of them. And so it was at the close of the 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 47 

wiir, that many families were separated 
and Avere never reunited. My m6ther had 
oiiilit brothers and sisters, and cannot tell 
where one of tlu^n is today. That she 
ever got back her children was due to 
God's own arrangement and overruling. 
But this curse of African slavery is 
done away. Thank God! Parents and 
children, husbands and wives, are no 
longer torn from each other and sold as 
cattle to enrich their master. We have one 
Master, even God. We have lived to see 
the day when "all men are born free and 
equal," and this despite of race or color. 
The blot of African slavery has been wip- 
ed out from our fair land with the life- 
blood of her brave sons. But there still 
exists in our very midst, another, and 
even more cruel slavery, which is holding 
men soul and body in the most abject 
bondage. It is the slavery of Intemper- 
ance. The white man's slave could love 
and serve the Lord and in the end get to 



48 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

heaven. The Drink Demon's slave is held 
with an ever tightening grip in life, and 
is ruined, body and soul, in death. Shall 
we see the curse of strong drink wiped out 
even as we have seen the curse of slav- 
ery? Shall we have an Emancipation 
Proclamation for the defenceless millions 
over whom drink is now tyranizing? I 
appeal to you who are voters. Shall we? 
After mother was set free, she left her 
old master and went to work out. Ellen 
and Frank were old enough to do a little ; 
so they were put out to service too. One 
day there came a letter to mother. In it 
was a lock of father's hair. She knew the 
hair and the handwriting, and knew it 
was no fraud. This letter told her to pre- 
pare to come north with Captain Newton. 
Could it be possible that so much of good 
was in store for her? Yes, it was really 
true. Mr. Newton had gone to Georgia 
and would be back again in a month after 
her and the children. But he being a 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 49 

Union man, it was dangerous for him to 
stav lone: in the south. So he had to hur- 
rv back and come for mother sooner than 
he expected. But she left all and went 
with him, and the long-divided family 
were now at last happily reunited. 

Of these four children born in slavery, 
Ellen is the only one now surviving, Lu- 
cinda died with typhoid fever at the age 
of eight. Calvin took quick consumption 
from exposure in Michigan, and died at 
the age of nineteen. Franklin grew to 
} manhood and was married. Three months 
\ after his marriage, he was drowned in a 
lake near Elgin, Illinois. Ellen, the eld- 
est child, now Mrs. Ellen Thompson, liv- 
ed in Elgin until two years ago, since 
which time she has lived near Omaha, Ne- 
• biaska. 

After the days of slavery, while my par- 
ents were living in Bureau county, Illi- 
nois, there were born to them four daugh- 
ters, Sarah Matilda, Katharinp Isabel, 




50 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

Lenora Ethridge, and the writer, Eliza 
Gertrude, all of whom are still living. 

During my father's last illness he often 
spoke to mother about temporal needs, 
and would always end by saying, ^'The 
Lord will provide." And truly He has. 
Mother in her declining years ha^ a com- 
fortable home, free from debt, near the 
church, where she delights to attend. She 
is always found in her place in the house 
of God unless prevented by illness. And 
although getting along in years, she is sel- 
dom ill. She gets a pension and with ij 
this gets along nicely. Verily, the will- 
ing and obedient shall eat the good of the 
land. 



Jfatbcr ZTahe fiD? 1ban&. 



The way is dark, my Father, cloud on cloud 
Is gathering thickly o'er my head, and loud 
The thunders roar above me. See, I stand 
Like one bewildered: Father, take my hand. 

And through the gloom 

Lead safely home 
Thy child! 

The day goes fast, my Father, and the night 
Is dawning darkly down. My faithless sight 
Sees ghostly visions. Fears, a spectral band, 
Encompass me, O, Father, take my hand, 

And from the night. 

Lead up to light 
Thy child! 

The way is long, my Father! and my soul 
Longs for the rest and quiet of the goal; 
While yet I journey through this weary land, 
Keep me from wandering. Father, take my hand; 

Quickly and straight, 

Lead to heaven's gate 
Thy child! 



52 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

The path is rough, my Father! Many a thorn 
Has pierced me; and my weary feet, all torn 
And bleeding, mark the way. Yet thy command 
Bids me press forward. Father, take my hand; 

Then safe and hlest, 

Lead up to rest 
Thy child! 

The throng is great, my Father! Many a doubt 
And fear and danger compass me about; 
And foes oppress me sore. I cannot stand 
Or go alone. 0, Father! take my hand, 

And through the throng 

Lead safe along 
Thy child! 

The cross is heavy. Father! I have borne 
It long, and still do bear it. Let my worn 
And fainting spirit rise to that blest land 
Where crowns are given. Father, take my hand; 
And reaching down. 
Lead to the crown 
Thy child! 

— Henry N. Cobb. 



^be (Bracioue Hnewcr. 

The way is dark, my child! but leads to light 
I would not always have thee walk by sight 
My dealings now thou canst not understand. 
I meant it so; but I will take thy hand. 

And through the gloom, 

Lead safely home 
My child! 

The day goes fast, my child! But is the night 
Darker to me than day? In me is light! 
Keep close to me and every spectral band 
Of fears shall vanish. I will take thy hand, 

And through the night 

Lead up to light 
My child! 

The way is long, my child! But it shall be 
Not one step longer than is best for thee; 
And thou shalt know, at last, when thou shalt 

stand 
Safe at the goal, how I did take thy hand. 
And quick and straight, 
Lead to heaven's gate 
My child! 



U SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

The path, is rough, my child! But oh! how sweet 
Will be the rest, for weary pilgrims meet, 
When thou shalt reach the borders of that land 
To which I lead thee, as I take thy hand; 

And safe and blest 

With me shall rest. 
My child! 

The throng is great, my child! But at thy side 
Thy Father walks; then be not terrified, 
For I am with thee; will thy foes command 
To let thee freely pass; will take thy hand, 
And through the throng 
Lead safe along. 
My child! 

—Henry N. Cobb. 




Sketch of lElisa. 

"My cage confines me round; 

Abroad I cannot fly; 
But though my wing is closely bound, 

My heart's at liberty. 
My prison walls cannot control 
The flight, the freedom, of the soul." 

— Madame Guyon. 

Ou the 11th day of December, 1876, 
near Providence, Bnrean county, Illinois, 
the subject of this sketch was born. I 
seemed to be a healthy baby, and for a 
short time grew as other children. But 
at four weeks old, my bones began to 
snap and break. One day I cried all day, 
and mv mother wondered what could be 
the matter. She found out that one of 
my limbs was broken. In time it healed, 
and lo an arm broke. This had no more 
than recovered when the other arm broke. 
And thus my bones would break, one af- 
ter another, for six long years. Whenever 



56 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

I was moved, it caused me orpnf C5i|ffering. 
My bones being very soft and tender, just 
the least thing would cause them to break. 
One day my little sister Lenora, two years 
older, was showing me how some people 
shook hands at meeting. As she shook 
my hand to show me, my arm broke. j 

I knew nothing of the pleasures of 
childhood. I could not play as other chil- 
dren, but had to sit still in the house and 
look out at the other children ; and part . 
of the time was not even able to sit up. 
I was doctored but without any apparent 
benefit. The doctors in those days did not 
seem to understand my case. "R^^ the doc- 
tors now say it was an extreme case of 
the rickets, such as they have read about 
but have very rarely seen. My mother 
prayed for the Lord to take me out of my 
intense suffering. There was not a 
thought that I could live. My burial 
clothes were made, and everybody expect- 
ed that they would shortly be needed. But 



SHADOW AND SUNSIIINK. 67 

God saw fit to let me live. IT is tlioii^^hts 
are DOt our thoughts, neither are His ways 
our ways. If any one had said to my 
mother that I should live to be twenty- 
eight years old, she would have said it 
was out of the question. I stopped grow- 
ing. For years my weight was only 
twenty- four or twenty-five pouns; but in 
later years I have gained some in weight, 
though not in height. My weight at the 
present time is about fifty pounds and my 
height about thirty-three inches. I ride 
in a baby carriage or go-cart, and am 
often taken for a baby and spoken to as 
such. 

As I go about, being so small for my 
age, I am quite a curiosity to strangers. 
I have often been amused when people 
would crowd around me and ask mother 
or Sister Katie questions about me, such 
as, "Can she talk?" "Is she smart?" "How 
old is the baby?" ^Has she got feet?" 
"Can she use her hands?" "Oh what a 



58 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

big baby I'- One lady on the train, not 
long ago, came up to me and began to 
talk baby talk. "Hello, sir! Hello, sir! 
Boo!" This was indeed amusing to me. 
It drew the attention of every one in the 
car. Of course, the baby did not respond 
in the way she expected, she supposing it 
would laugh and crow. When I was ex- 
plained to her she was somewhat taken 
back. 

I am often asked if I do not get tired 
sitting all the time. Of course, I know 
nothing else only sit, as I never walked a 
step in my life. I know it must be grand 
to be able to walk, but I know nothing 
from experience, of the pleasures of walk- 
ing. Some day, I expect to walk the 
streets of the New Jerusalem just as well 
as those who now have the full use of 
their feet; and that will be exceedingly 
grand. 

If I had been strong and healthy like 
other children and young people, perhaps 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 50 

I should not have known the Lord. I 
might now liave been running after the 
pleasures of the world. I can't remem- 
ber when I first began to pray. One day 
while lying on the bed in my room alone, 
the Lord came to me. I wanted to be a 
Christian and know^ that I was saved. 
While praying for this the Lord heard my 
prayer and blessed my soul. I was not at 
that time, more than five years old, and I 
have served the Lord ever since. I am 
thankful I have been preserved and kept 
from the Avickedness of the world. 

The Lord is so good to me. He often 
comes to my heart with such refreshing 
peace. He melts my heart so that it is 
easy to pray. I say, Oh, Lord, just help 
me to pray and prevail w^th Thee for 
others.'' This world is full of suffering 
humanity. There are many in distress, 
running after the world, seeking peace 
and finding none. The Lord helps me to 
pray for such. I cannot help longing to 



60 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

be in the active work of the Lord, helping 
to rescue poor lost souls, and those who 
are blinded in sin. But perhaps God can 
get more glory out of me as an invalid 
than He could if I were well. He can 
help me to pray for those who are strong 
and able to work in His vineyard. I know 
there is nothing accomplished for God 
without earnest prayer. So I am content 
to fill my little corner and be what God 
wants me to be. I say from my heart, 
^'Thy will be done in earth as it is in 
heaven." 

I was necessarily deprived, to a great 
extent of school privileges. My sisters 
taught me my letters and how to spell. I 
loved to learn. After we moved to Kan- 
sas, my sister Sarah taught school near a 
place called Big Bend, but afterward 
named Speed. There was no schoolhouse 
in the neighborhood, so she taught in one 
room of our house. This was a large 
room and served quite well for the pur- 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. (il 

pose. This gave me a chance to go to 
school at home. I was greatly delighted; 
and as it did not hurt me to sit in scliool, 
I was allowed to study as much as I lik- 
ed. 

In time, my sisters went away from 
home to Orleans, Nebraska, to attend 
school at the Seminary. Then my father 
moved to Orleans to give them the benefit 
of the school. We settled close to the 
seminary to be handy to school and 
church; but still no one thought it pos- 
sible for me to attend school, until in 
1889, when my dear friend, Emma H. 
Hillmon, now Mrs. Emma H. Haviland, 
was Principal of the Seminary. God put 
it into her heart to give me a chance to 
go to school. She came to see my mother 
and offered to give me free tuition in the 
seminary, and urged mother to send me. 
So every day I was wheeled to school in 
my invalid chair, which friends on the 
Sappa had kindly donated me; and was 



62 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

carried up the steps to the school room 
by mother or Katie, and placed at my 
desk, where I sat until lessons were over 
and they came for me at noon and night. 
My bones did not break any more. I was 
comjjaratiuelp healthy, and nothing pre- 
vented my attending school. I was now 
fairly started in school and eager to learn. 
The following year the seminary closed; 
but the next year, under Kev. C. E. Har- 
roun, Jr., the way was again open for me 
to attend school, and I gladly embraced 
the opportunity. 

Ever since I was old enough to know 
anything about the awful curse of strong 
drink, I have been greatly interested in 
temperance work, and have felt like lift- 
ing my voice in this grand cause whenever 
opportunity presented. I have many 
times felt the blessing of God in singing 
temperance songs or in speaking temper- 
ance recitations. While in school at Or- 
leans several young people were carefully 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 63 

trained by Sister Eiiiina ilillmon on the 
Demorest Medal temperance recitations. 
These were spoken from time to time in 
the Seminary chapel before large audi- 
ences. Jud<»es were appointed who Avere 
to observe critically every word and ges- 
ture and award the medal to the best 
speaker. It was in one of these contests 
that I won the silver medal which I have 
on in my picture, shown on another page. 
This medal I could never wear for pride 
or show, but only on special occasions to 
show my interest in the temperance cause 
and my relation to it. 

Kev. J. Adams, now living at Green- 
ville, Illinois, but at that time pastor at 
Orleans, sometimes gave temperance lec- 
tures around at county schoolhouses. At 
such times he would often take with him 
some of the students from the seminary 
to sing, and I was sometimes called upon 
to speak or sing in these meetings. 



C4 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

Of later years my thoughts and atten- 
tion have been called more particularly 
to foreign missionary work. When my 
dear friend, Miss Hillmon, left Orleans, 
on her way to Africa, my heart was stir- 
red. I longed to go too and work for the 
elevation and salvation of my own race. 
All the years she was in Africa I was in 
close correspondence with her, and felt 
that in spirit, if not in bodily presence, I 
was by her side. Since, I have had the 
pleasure of meeting several different mis- 
sionaries from Africa, India, and China, 
and have come to feel a deep interest in 
every heathen land. Since I can never go 
myself to carry the Gospel to the heathen, 
I esteem it a great privilege to help hold 
the ropes in this country, and to pray for 
and encourage those who go. 

As I look back over my past life, and 
remember how good the Lord has been to 
me through all my sufferings, I am made 
to wonder. But if He can get any glory 




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out of my life I shall be satisfied. There 
have been persons who would say to my 
mother, ^Why don't you take her to the 
show or museum? That wouldn't be any 
harm and you could make your liv- 
ing easily." Others would say, "There is 
a fortune in that girl." Quite recently a 
gentleman said to my niece, as he saw me 
for the first time, "There is ready money." 
But, dear reader, God did not create 
me for this purpose. He created me for 
His glory, and if I can be a help to any 
one, and if God can get glory to His name 
out of my life, amen ! To this end shall I 
live. It has never been a temptation to 
me to want to go with a show or to be in 
a museum for money making purposes. 
I once went to a museum in Chicago just 
to see and learn. I was asked by one there 
why I did not speak to the manager and 
get a place in the museum, and make lots 
of money. Oh, no ! Such places are not 
for me. God wants me to live for Him, 



66 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

and I could not do it there. I must keep 
separated from the world. "Wherefore 
come out from among them and be ye sep- 
arate, saith the Lord, and touch not the 
unclean thing; and I will receive you; and 
will be a father unto you, and ye shall be 
my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Al- 
mighty." The love of God in my heart 
keeps me from wanting to do the things j 
that God disapproves and I love to do the 
things that He approves. 

Some wonder how I can be happy in my 
condition. It is the sunlight of God in 
my soul that makes me happy. It would 
be hard to live without the Lord. I get 
much pleasure from the reading of good 
books. I enjoy looking at the beautiful 
things in nature and in art. I love to lis- 
ten to the singing of the birds and to 
sweet music. In fact many pleasures come 
to me through the five senses, of which I 
have full use. Then too, I have ginjd use 
of my hands and can work and earn a lit- 






SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. G7 

I tie. And of the Httle I earn, the Lord 
gets the tenth. That is His. I am so 
thankful that the Lord enables me to work 
in this way. For if I could not use my 
hands, or if I could not read, time would 
drag heavily, and life would become very 
monotonous. The work I do is knitting, 
crocheting, fancy work, and making 
horse hair watch chains. The Lord al- 
ways provides a way for His children. 

And then I am blessed in having a host 
of friends. Every one is so good to me, 
and seeks to make my life pleasant and 
cheerful. I have many pleasant hours 
with the teachers and students of the Or- 
leans Seminary. I can never forget them. 
They have been such a help to me. 

Another blessing I enjoy is a comfort- 
able home, just a few rods from the sem- 
inary, where I attend Sunday School and 
church. Our home is a home where the 
Lord has come to dwell. Our family is 
small now. A part have crossed over the 



68 SHADOW AND SUNSHI]NE. 



river. There are five girls left, myself 
and four sisters, three of whom are mar- 
ried. Our family now at home consists of 
mother, myself, and Sister Katie, my 
faithful attendant. I am thankful to God 
that He has spared to me my dear mother 
and sister, who have cared for me so kind- 
ly and tenderly all these years. In all 
of my helplessness, and now more espec- 
ially in mother's old age and failing 
health, Katie has been and is today our 
cheerful and faithful standby. She has 
surely had abundant opportunities for f 
the exercise of patience. Of her it shall 
be said, "She hath done what she could." 
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of 
the least of these my brethren, ye have 
done it unto me." 



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Iperfect C^brouQb Suffcrtng. 

God never would send you the darkness 
If He felt you could bear the light; 

But you would not cling to His guiding hand 
If the way were always bright; 

And you would not care to walk by faith, 
Could you always walk by sight. 

'Tis true He has many an anguish, 

For our sorrowful hearts to bear; 
And many a cruel thorn-crown 

For your tired head to wear; 
He knows how few would reach heav'n at all 

If pain did not guide them there. 

So He sends you the blinding darkness, 
And the furnace of seven-fold heat; 

'Tis the only way,, believe me, 
To keep you close to His feet, 

For 'tis always so easy to wander 
When our lives are glad and sweet. 

Then nestle your hand in your Father's, 

And sing, if you can, as you go; 
Your song may cheer some one behind you 

Whose courage is sinking low. 
And, well, if your lips do quiver 

God will love you better so. 

— Sel. 



1Inci5ente of Slaver?. 

The time of slavery were troublous 
times, to those who felt its crushing | 
power. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness, have been defined as the inal- 
ienable rights of every human being. To 
have an existence as a human being, and 
yet to be held under such bondage as de- 
prives one of all human rights, — such an 
existence must ever be a misery. With no i 
right to have property, family, or even i 
a name of his own apart from that of his 
master, to the slave, the pursuit of happi- 
ness was a terribly disappointing one. Yet , 
in just such a condition of thralldom were \ 
held four millions of Africa's sons and 
daughters on American soil, until at one 
stroke by the Emancipation Proclama- 
tion, the shackles were riven, and these 
millions of lowly creatures were human 
beings in reality as well as in name. 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 71 

The following incidents of slave li?e, 
with many others like them, have been 
related by my mother as having come un- 
der her own observation. There was a 
man in Mississippi by the name of Greg- 
ory, who was very cruel to his slaves; so 
much so, that they would run away from 
him whenever they got a chance. Rarely, 
however, did one succeed in escaping, for 
the blood-hounds were at once on their 
track. Mngled and bleeding, they were 
caught and brought back, and as a pun- 
ishment for running away, they were re- 
quired to work on the Sabbath day to 
make up their lost time. Mr. Gregory 
went out one Sabbath to oversee the de- 
linquents in some wood-chopping. A tree, 
in falling, accidentally lodged in another 
tree. This angered the master, and in no 
very amiable mood, he set to work to help 
pull it down, when by some mismanage- 
ment, it fell on him and killed him in- 



72 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

stantlj. This would seem a just judg- 
ment for his unrighteousness. 

The marriage ceremony for slaves had 
in it a clause requiring them to cleave to 
each other ^until distance should them 
part'; meaning until their master sold 
them apart. One day we heard a terrible 
screaming in the road which passed our 
house, and on going out to see what the 
trouble was about, there was poor Amy 
Griffin, crying and wringing her hands in 
awful agony, as she was hurried along 
the road between two strange men. "Oh 
my poor husband! I shall never see you 
any more — never any more!" She had 
been sold away from her husband, and 
they were taking her hundreds of miles 
away. 

One master who lived near us had large 
cotton fields and about one hundred 
slaves. Each one was required to pick a 
certain amount of cotton daily. The 
amount varied somewhat with different 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 73 

individuaJs, and was from fifty to one 
hundred pounds, according to the age and 
strength of the picker. No allowance was 
made for temporary illness or indisposi- 
tion on the part of an}- slave. Each was 
expected, invariably, to measure up to his 
apportionment. At the end of the day, 
every basket was weighed by a white man. 
Any shortage in weight was punished by 
a terrible beating with a large ox-hide 
whip. Very often would be heard the 
screams of poor slaves who had failed to 
pick their full quota. 

After the day's work was over, the 
slaves had dealt out to them some corn 
meal and fat bacon, which each had to 
prepare for himself in his own cabin. They 
must prepare at night enough for the next 
day. This was carried to the field and 
eaten cold, so there should be no loss 
of time from their work. 

All the masters were not like this, how- 
ever. I had a good, kind master. I was 



74 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

one of the fortunate ones. I was never 
abused like this ; but my poor mother did 
not have a square inch of smooth skin on 
her back. The lash had cut deep gashes 
which left ugly scars and ridges. 

I have seen my poor people bought up 
by hundreds, and word sent out that "a 
drove of niggers" was to be in town on a 
certain day. The poor things would be 
lined up in rows, men, women, and chil- 
dren; and one after another they were 
sold, from an auction block to the highest 
bidder. Miserable, contemptible white 
men would examine that human property, 
much as you would examine a horse, even 
thrusting open jaws to examine the teeth, 
and feeling the muscles of arm or body. 
I have seen them pass their rough hands 
over the arms, neck, and bust of women 
and girls, and ask such questions as were 
degrading in the extreme; and yet the 
poor creatures could not help themselves 



SHADOW AND SUNSHIXR. 75 

— no, not though every instinct of decency 
or modesty was outraged. 

I have seen the little baby taken from 
its mother^s breast and sold hundreds of 
miles aAvay, never to be seen or heard of 
again. A mother who lived near us had 
a little son sold away from her at about 
two years of age, and was never able to 
get any trace of him afterward, until very 
unexpectedly, and by the merest accident, 
she discovered her lost son. After the war 
was over and slaves were free, she met and 
loved a man and was finally married to 
him. One day she observed a peculiar 
scar on his head, and told him of her lit- 
tle son who had a similar scar caused by 
a kick from a horse when he was a baby. 
They began to investigate, and found that 
he was her long lost boy. She had mar- 
ried her own child ! 

My people were, many of them. God- 
fearing, and took advantage of every 
chance the}' had to meet together and 



76 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

serve the Lord. They would sometimes 
be permitted to occupy the back seats of 
the white man^s church. But when the 
white people came in sufficient numbers 
to fill the church, the slaves were ordered 
out of doors. They had no choice as to 
what church they should attend, but were 
obliged to attend the same church as their 
master. The sacrament wasi administered 
to them separately. 

Among themselves they sometimes had 
powerful meetings, and would get saved 
and blest and feel the joys of another 
world. This would cause them to forget, 
for the time being, their miseries in this. 
Faith would catch a gleam of the day 
when they should burst their shackles and 
go free. For this they sighed and cried 
and prayed. And there came a day, thank 
God, when the groans and cries of the op- 
pressed reached the ears of the Heavenly 
Father; and though He delayed a while, 



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yet He did come aud show His power, and 
His colored children are free today. And 
for this I desire to give Him aH the 
glory. 




Zbc Qctoxoon. 



1. In the palmy days of slavery, 

A score of years ago, 
A pretty, dark-skinned Octoroon 

Was singing soft and low 
A song to please her baby 

As in her arms it lay, 
A dainty, dimpled, fair-haired boy — 

A twelve-month old that day. 

I. Strange home for child or mother! 

For her quick ear often heard, 
'Mid the clink of dice and glasses. 

Many a loud and angry word. 
For her Phillip was a gambler; 

But she never dreamed or thought 
Of any shame or sorrow 

For the wrongs he might have wrought. 

3. "He plays 'seven-up' 'till midnight," 

She often laughing told, 
"And then, like other gentlemen, 
Comes home and counts his gold." 

4. So she was always happy. 

Singing French songs, sweet and wild, 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 79 

With a voice as full of music 

As the laughing of a child. 
But, the midnight, she was waiting 

For his footstep on the stair, 
Came a sound of measured meaning 

Throbbing on the silent air! 

Came a sound of troubled voices, 

Filling all her soul with dread — 
Comrads, bearing up a burden, 

Cold and lifeless! Phil was dead! 
Like a sudden blow, it smote her 

With a desolate sense of grief, 
But no faintness came to shield her, 

And no tears to bring relief. 

Oh, to escape the heart-ache. 

And the dumb, bewildering pain. 
How gladly would she fall asleep 

And never wake again! 
Yet, she watched with heart near breaking 

As they bore his form away; 
Then she listened to the prosing 

Of two lawyers, old and gray. 

As they talked of debts of honor, 

Of the house, and horses fine, 
Of, plate, perhaps and jewels; 

Of furniture and wine; 



80 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

Then! Ah! Then, what was the meaning 
Of the words they muttered o'er? 

As they said: "The wench and baby 
Ought to bring a thousand more!" 

8. Quickened ears and comprehension 

Caught each careless tone and word; 
Knew too well the tricks of trade 

To doubt the fearful truth she heard. 
But when they so roughly told her: 

"There will be a sale tomorrow!" 
Her voice broke forth in piteous wail 

Of bitterness and sorrow: — 

9. "Oh, I know Phil never meant 

For me and baby to be sold! 
"Why, I'se been his little woman 

Since I'se only twelve years old! 
He won me from the Captin, 

Playing 'seven-up' one night. 
And he's told me more'n a thousand times 

He's sure to make it right. 

10. The Captin was my father, 

Captin Winslow, of Bellair, 
And you can't sell me and baby — - 

O you can't! You never dare!" 
And those men, so used to suffering. 

And callous as they were, 




Eliza Suggs, Age 16. 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 81 

Looked in each other's faces 
And paused to pity her. 

11. But "many a case was just as bad, 

And some perhaps were worse; 
They could do nothing, anyhow, 

The law must take its course." 
The broken hearted mother 

Tried in vain to sleep that night, 
Her busy brain would conjure up 

Some possible means of flight. 

12. Well she knew she was a prisoner, 

That the house was thronged with men; 
Knew, too, that for years this place 

Had been a noted gambler's den, 
And a long, low vaulted chamber 

Ran beneath the basement floor, 
Opening far beyond detection, 

In a heavy, hidden door. 

13. She shuddered with a vision 

Of the bloodhounds on her track. 
As she thought deadly certain 
They would be to bring her back! 

14. O, she could not, could not bear it! 

She would kill herself and him! 
Then, across her 'wildered memory 
Stole a vision faint and dim. 



82 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

Of some reverent childish teaching, 
Prayer to God, and faith and fear — 

"Lead us not into temptation!" 
Was He listening? Did He hear? 

15. Then she thought of old Aunt Dinah, 

Who had taught her thus to pray. 
Living free in Oppoloosa, 
Half a score of miles away. 

16. And at last, she rose, determined 

That the danger should be braved; 
Though her life might pay the forfeit. 

Little Phillip should be saved! 
So she wrapped her sleeping treasure 

In a mantle dark and thin. 
Tied a gaudy-hued bandana 

'Neath her smoothly-rounded chin, 

17. Planned her flight to escape detection. 

And removing every trace, 
With a subtle, stealthy movement 

Of a leopard, left the place. 
And she paused not in the journey, — 

Life or death still lay before! 
'Till she struggled, worn and weary, 

To Aunt Dinah's cabin door. 



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18. Hush! a voice of prayer and pleading; 

On the midnight calm is heard: — 
"Teach us, Lord, through all our blindness 

To believe Thy precious word. 
Help us vi^hen our hearts are heavy; 

Guide us when we go astray; 
Lead us in the paths we know not. 

Nearer to Thee, day by day." 

19. With her spirit vision opened 

By some unseen inner sight, 
Old Aunt Dinah had arisen 

And was praying in the night. 
In her strong, black arms she gathered 

Weary mother, wondering child; 
And she listened to their story 

Full of anguish, fierce and wild. 

20. Knowing well she could not save them. 

That her love though strong and bright, 
Was as chaff before the whirlwind 

Of the white man's power and might. 
"I would give my poor old heart's blood, 

Every drop for yours and you, 
If I could but keep you, honey. 

From this path you'r walking through. 

21. But, I've seen it all too often; 

They will hunt you if you hide. 



84 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

They will catch you if you'r fleeing, 
They will take you from my side; 

And they'll take your baby from you, 
Stop! De Lord's own voice I hear; 

Will you trust your precious darling 
To my care and leave him here? 

22. "I will keep him from all danger; 

Hide him where no eye can see; 
And 'twill be a comfort deary. 

If you always know he's free. 
Don't look so; give me the baby; 

Yes, I know how hard it is, 
But we do the Father's bidding. 

Not in our way, but in His. 

23. "I will pray for you tomorrow; 

Now the moon is going down. 
You must take my little donkey. 

Child, and hurry back to town. 
Ride him just as far's you dare to. 

Then tie up the bridle rein. 
Turn his head, he's done sartain 

To come right straight home again!" 

24. When next morning she was summoned 

From her room, she walked alone; 
Though her fierce, brown eyes burned darkly. 
They were tearless, dry as stone. 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 85 

And the lawyers and the keepers 
Looked at her and shrank away, 

'Minded by her wondrous beauty 
Of a tigress turned at bay. 

25. But a query ran among them, — 

Of the baby — where was he? 
'Till she heard their words and answerefl" 

Very calmly — "He is free!" 
"Free! The house was strongly guarded, 

Every window, every door; 
They had seen both child and mother 

Safely caged the night before! 

26. "Not a living thing had ventured 

O'er the threshold that they knew; 
And the hounds with hungry voices 

Bayed outside the whole night through." 
Instant search sufficed to show them 

That the baby was not there; 
Not a hint, or trace, or sign 

Could they discover anywhere. 

27. Then, with threatening look and gesture 

To the mother they returned, 
But she said in words triumphant, 
While her eyes more brightly burned: — 

28. "Strike me! Minions! I expect it! 

Scourge me! burn me! beat or kill! 



86 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

But it will not help you find him, 
He is Free! my darling Phil! 

Think you, I would fear to hide him 
In the darkness of the grave? 

Ah, my baby's father's baby 

Was not born to be a slave!" 

29. So, with furtive eyes they watched her, 

Talking low 'mid fear and fright. 
Half afraid 'mid their bravado. 

She would vanish from their sight. 
But she stood as stands the martyr. 

When his last frail hope dies out, 
And the murmuring sea of voices 

Rises to an angry shout. 

30. And she thought not of her beauty 

As her heart beat fast and faster, 
Gazing on those stranger faces, 

Wondering which would be her master. 
But, the horrid truth awoke her, — 

"Going, going, gone!" It told 
That beyond all hope or dreamiiig. 

She was sold,— to slavery sold! 

31. Then, as if the soul within her 

Larger grew with pain and strife. 
Or, as if some marble statue 
Started forth, a thing of life. 



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Turned she, with the footsteps silent 

As a specter of the dead, 
From their midst she swiftly fled, 

Er« a hand could lift to stay her. 

32. On — to where the lofty margin 

Overlooked the river's flood, 
There she paused and turned in triumph 

As upon its brink she stood: 
^'Cowards! Do you dare to follow 

To your gulf, to flnd your slave? 
Think you that I fear to render 

Back to God the life He gave. 

23. Let him in his righteous Judgement 

Weigh the guilt 'twixt you and me; 
Let him guard my boy and keep him 

When his mother, too, is free! 
Back! you have no power to stay me! 

Stop! I would not hear you lie. 
Back! I laugh at you, my masters! 

Free I ..ve! and free I die!" 

34. Turning with a look of triumph 
And a smile of proud disdain, 
Sprang she forth into the river. 

Sank, and rose — and sank again. 
Onward swept the mighty river 

On its journey to the sea; 
But the mother's woes were ended — 
Child ana mother both were free. 

— Selected. 



Ipauline tbe IReaper* 

"A beautiful time for the harvest" 

Said Pauline, the reaper, one day; 
My sheaves shall be many and golden 

When the Master cometh this way; 
My place is where grain is the ripest. 

And my hands are young and strong; 
Nor care I for heat or (for) labor 

As I sing the reaper's song. 
Gathering, gathering for the King, 
Hands may grow weary but glad hearts sing, 
"Till he comes." 

"Pauline," — 'twas the voice of the Master, 

And she paused in her happy haste. 
Where for the want of a skilful reaper 

Ripe grain was going to waste. 
Pauline, "Leave there thy sheaf unbinded, 

And now come aside with me" 
Was the Master's word of greeting 

"I, something would say to thee." 
And she heard the happy ringing 
Of the reapers in their singing 
"Till He comes." 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 89 

"Wait here and help on the harvest," 

Was the Master's strange command, 
As she reached a lonely corner 

And folded her eager hands. 
She waited in painful silence 

Waited with weary heart; 
For how could she help the reapers 

If she did not do her part. 
Afar she could hear them calling 

"Thy beautiful grain is falling, 
Pauline, Pauline, art thou hiding; 
Thou wilt have nothing but chiding, 
When He comes." 

Her heart was heavy with sorrow. 

And desolate was the cry, 
Oh, why, when I love my Master 

Am I like a weed thrown by? 
I left the world and its treasures 

Nor heeded a moment its cost 
To take my place with the reapers, 

Now all my talents are lost. 
Nevermore will I be singing 
Where the ripest grain is springing 
When He comes." 

"Pauline," 'twas the voice of the Master, 

"The harvest is mine, not thine 
If waiting gives me best service 



90 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE 

Surely thou needst not repine, 
Another has taken thy sickle; 

It only is left to thee 
To see in this lone hidden corner 

What work can be done for me. 
There can be no place so dreary. 

There can be no place so weary, 
But that all can help in bringing 
Golden sheaves with happy singing, 
Till I come." 

So she smiled and gave a welcome 

To pain which would be her guest; 
And patience and sweet submission 

Came soon with their helpful rest. 
With their help in her shadowed corner, 

Like stars through the gathering gloom. 
There sprang for Pauline fairest flowers 

That filled every spot with bloom. 
Then the Master came so often. 

It was caled a holy place 
And the weary reapers lingered 

For more love and lowly grace; 
And they went their own way singing 
"We shall all be ripe grain bringing 

Till He comes." 

"Thou canst plan for the busy workers" 
Pauline heard the Master say! 



SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. «1 

And she joyfully took the message 

And said when one passed her way 
"Take flowers to the darkened i oisons, 

And glooms to the bed of pain 
And blossoms to the weary mother 

Thy labor will not be vain" 
They heeded her gentle bidding 

And fragrance went everywhere, 
While tired eyes were lifted upward 

And sad hearts were saved despair. 
In her room came back the echo 

Of the reapers in their singing 
"Till He comes." 

'"Tis time the sheaves were garnered" 

Said the Master when eve had come 
And the reapers in the gloaming 

Were singing their harvest home. 
Then Pauline observed in wonder 

As they entered the sunset gate 
Her name on sheaves rich and golden 

That were gathered early and late. 
And the Master smiled approval 

And said as she meekly came, 
"Thine is the crown of the toilers 

That were garnered for me in thy name" 
And the bells of heaven were ringing 
While the angel choir was singing 

'He has come." — Selected. 



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by Eliza Suggs. 

O, the blessed Holy One, 
Hath come within my heart to dwell, 
And the good that He has done 
My tongue can never tell. 

He took away my stony heart. 
And put a heart of flesh therein. 
And now O sin thou hast no part 
But Jesus dwells within. 

He has bidden sin depart, 
And has entered my heart's door 
Saying, "Now my child thou art, 
Go, and sin no more." 



by Eliza Suggs. 
Here sits a dear old lady 

In her rustic chair. 
Sunbeams gently falling 

On her snow-white hair. 
There is a sad, sad story, 

Written on her face 
Sorrow and woe, long, long ago, 

Have left the sad lines you trace. 

Chorus: 

She had a drunken husband! 

After all these years, 
Golden hair is silver now, 

Dim those eyes with tears. 
She had a drunken husband 

Waiting him to reform. 
He went away one bitter cold day 

He now fills a drunkard's grave. 

Far, far away McDonald 

Went in revelry. 
"Stay, I pray you husband, 

Do not go away. 
That Is the road to ruin. 

That is the road to sin. 
Says the word of God, in Heaven above, 

No drunkard shall enter in. 



84 SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 

"Just one glass, McDonald," 
Said his comrades dear. 
*'Just this once to please us 

A social glass of beer." 
"Just this once to please you 

I take my first glass now. 
I'll take no more, dear wife, I'm sure, 

I make to you this vow." 

That was his first step downward; 

On and on he went. 
Powerful grew the habit 

Downward he was bent, — 
Drank 'till he raved in madness, 

Then came the fatal day 
With a curse and stare and clutching 
his hair. 

His soul then passed away. 

When the sad tidings reached her 

She fell, they thought her dead, 
Then there came a doctor, 

"A broken heart," he said. 
That's why she's sad and lonely, 

Waiting for him in vain; 
He went away one bitter cold day, 

And never returned again. 



Zbc Bcatb of the ©10 l^ear. 

by Eliza Suggs. 

Tick tock, tick tock, time is flying 

Tick tock, tick tock, the old year is dying 

Soon the Old Year will be gone 

Soon the New Year will be on 

So the time is flying 

Tick tock, tick tock. 

Tick tock, tick tock, time is flitting 
Tick tock, tick tock, no time for fretting 
But let us always keep in view 
Our days on earth are few 
And there's lots of work to do 
Tick tock, tick tock. 

Tick tock, tick tock, the clock is striking 

Tick tock, tick tock just while I'm writing 

Another hour has swiftly gone 

The Old Year is nearly gone. 

Oh, how the time is hastening on. 

Tick tock, tick tock. 

Tick tock, tick tock, time is going 
Tick tock, tick tock, what are we doing? 



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SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. 



We must labor hard to find 

Souls for God, and bear in mind 

We'll not always have this time. ,; 

Tick tock, tick tock. 

Tick tock, tick tock, sixty minutes more 
Tick tock, tick tock, the Old year will be o'er 
Twelve oclock has now rolled round 
Old Year has entirely gone 
Happy New Year now has come 
Tick tock, tick tock. 

Tick tock, tick tock, soon time will be no more 
Tick tock, tick tock, then all will be o'er 
Let us labor hard this year 
Working for the Lord with fear 
Eternity is drawing near, 
Tick tock. tick tock. 




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